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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Redundancy Pay
Monday 14th November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in their Department in each year between 1 January 2016 and 8 November 2022.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

Under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, eligible Ministers who leave office are entitled to a one off payment equivalent to one quarter of their annual salary at the point at which they leave Government.

This applies only where a Minister is under 65 and is not appointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving government.

Individuals may waive the payment to which they are entitled. That is a matter for their personal discretion, but this approach has been taken in the past.

Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data.

Written Question
Former Ministers: Redundancy Pay
Tuesday 8th November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in each year since 1 January 2016 to 2 November 2022.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

Individual departments are responsible for the payment of salaries and severance payments to current and former Ministers. As such, the information requested is not held centrally.

Departments are required to publish compensation payments paid to former Ministers as part of their Annual Report & Accounts.

Written Question
Civil Service: Redundancy
Monday 7th November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the Government's development of proposals to cut 91,000 civil service jobs.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

Departments are constantly working to ensure the cost of Government is no greater than it needs to be to deliver for the public. Recent activity on workforce proposals will inform how departments maximise efficiency within their budgets, to ensure that the Government is using taxpayers’ money sustainably in the long term.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. Further to the comments on the Home Secretary, we have learned today from reports in the media that she was the subject of an inquiry by the Cabinet Office security group and MI5 in January into security leaks. Given what we have heard about the circumstances of her resignation, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What her timescale is for the commencement and implementation of provisions in the Equality Act 2010 on reasonable adjustments to common parts of buildings for disabled people. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the Minister to her place. Access to public buildings is one of issues that my constituents most often bring to me: those who have a problem with accessibility feel that they are excluded in many ways. I know that, in England and Wales, there are almost half a …..."
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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Annual Reports
Thursday 13th October 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the 2021-22 Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts will be published.

Answered by Edward Argar

The Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 is currently under review by the National Audit Office and is expected to be laid before the end of December.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 09 Sep 2022
Tributes to Her Late Majesty The Queen

"It is with a very sad sense of pride that I rise to speak on behalf of my constituents in Edinburgh West, many of whom have already visited the Palace of Holyroodhouse to lay flowers and pay their respects to Her Majesty in Edinburgh, a city she loved. She was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"3. What recent discussions he has had with representatives of political parties in Northern Ireland on the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"As the Secretary of State is probably aware, the leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland has claimed that the Government have until now taken a rather differentiated approach to the parties, and only the Democratic Unionist party was consulted on the drafting of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. …..."
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